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UNITED STATES REINI-IOLD BARTELL AND OSEPH WALTER SHIELDS, OF PHILADELPHIA PATENT OFFICE.

PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-POCKET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,547, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed February 5 1897. Serial No. 622,107. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, REINHOLD BARTELL and JOSEPH WALTER SHIELDS, citizens of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of a Pocket for Garments, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, in which the same is illustrated.

The object of our invention is a pocket for garments which in its construction andthe manner in which it is attached'to the garment is so strong and durable that it will not cause any sag to its mouth or any strain upon the garment itself and so simple in all its parts that any ordinary operator, Without expert knowledge of tailoring, may make and sew it'into the garment in one-half the time it takes to make a pocket of the ordinary pattern.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical section of the flap, the reinforce or attaching strip, and the proximate part of the material'of the garment fastened together before cutting the pocketopening. Fig. 2 represents asimilar view of the completed pocket after inturning the edges of the said material through the said opening and fastening the pocket proper to the reinforce or attaching strip. Fig. 3 represents in detail, on a larger scale, the contiguous parts of the reinforce 0r attaching strip, the flap, and the said material at the upper edge of the said opening in the position illustrated by Fig. 2. Fig. 4 represents a front view of that part of the garment to which the pocket is applied, the outlines of the pocket and flap behind the cloth of the garment being indicated by dotted lines; and

Fig. 5 represents a View similar to Fig. 3, showing a different mode of attaching the flap.

A designates the cloth of the garment; B, the flap, and O arectangular horizontal strip of facing material, such as silesia or leather, which at first is applied to the garment, overlapping the lower part of the flap, as shown in Fig. 1. A rectangular line of stitching D, much longer horizontally than its breadth,

as shown in Fig. 4, is then sewed through the said strip 0, which we distinguish as the reinforce or pocket-attaching strip, and through the cloth A. The upper part of the said line also passes through the lower end of the said flap and holds it in place. A slit, preparatory to forming the pocket-opening, is then made through this attaching-strip nearly from end to end thereof, but leaving the ends closed, the line of this slit being a little below the flap. The parts of the reinforce 0 above and below this strip are then turned through this slit, carrying with them the proximate edges of cloth A, inturning the same, as shown in Fig. 2, and leaving the pocket-opening E. The flap B also passes inward through the said slit during the operation of inturning, or the said flap may be attached after such inturning, as shown in Fig. 5, to an upturned part of the said attaching-strip above the opening E by a-line of stitching B instead of sewing it to the cloth and flap at the outset, as set forth. The reinforce or attaching strip G being bent upward, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4, the said strip,flap, and inturned cloth are then pressed together and another rectangular line of stitching F is run through them exterior and parallel to the line D, securing all the layers firmly in place. These two rectangular lines of stitches are thus concentric. The strip which makes the pocket proper, H, is then sewed at its ends to the said reinforce or attaching strip 0 by lines of stitches G and G, or it may be sewed at one end to the said strip before turning the latter in through the opening,so that the said pocket-strip will be turned in likewise, after which the other end thereof will be sewed to the said attaching-strip. In either case the sides of the pocket-strip are then sewed together, as usual, completing the said pocket. The efiect of the abovedescribed operations is to give strength to the garment on its under side, where the stress of the pocket comes on it, for the cloth A is turned back on itself, covering its raw edge at the pocket-opening, and the strip 0 is firmly fastened to it by the stitches of lines D and 'F, the latter passing quite through to the front of the garment and givinga finished look to the part about the pocket-opening.

The said strip or reinforce 0 being in one piece and closing the ends of the slit through which the inturning takes place will absolutely prevent sagging and hold the pocketopening in the form of a straight line whatever may be the weight in the pocket. There being only two lines of stitching through the cloth A, the latter is spared the weakening effect of perforation by the needle along divers lines and in many places. The need for bracing-strips to run up and down the interior of the garment or for devices designed to take the strain from the pocket-corners is entirely obviated.

The operation of making and attaching a pocket is greatly simplified by our above construction and made practicable for labor of less skill and less price.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a garment provided with a pocket-opening, a pocket, and a reinforce or pocket-attaching strip, the material of the said article being inturned at the edge of the said opening and the said strip being attached to this inturned part and also at its inner edge to the pocket substantially as set forth.

2. As an improved article of manufacture, a garment provided with a pocket-opening, a pocket and a reinforce or pocket-attaching strip, the material of the said article being inturned at the edge of the said opening, the said reinforcing-strip being upturned above the said opening the pocket being attached to the inner edge of the said strip and the said strip and the cloth of the garment being fastened together by the two concentric lines of stitching D and F, the latter passing through the upturned part of said strip as well as through the inturned part of the cloth substantially as set forth.

3. As an improved article of manufacture, a garment provided with apocket-opening, a pocket and a reinforce or pocket-attaching strip, which is in a single piece having a slit with closed ends, the material of the said article being inturned and sewed to the said strip and the latter being also attached to the pocket substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 4th day of February, 1897.

REINHOLD BARTELL. JOSEPH XVALTER SHIELDS. \Vitnesses:

JAs. U. ROBERTSON, FORREST H. ROBERTS. 

